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classic early '90s stuff, has all the usual features -- female singer, male rapper, one phrase from the lyrics showing up on screen, "drop that ghetto blaster", people lipsyncing over samples, etc.
I just found out there's a cover. And it's by . . .
this meme is good (Misery X CPR X Reese's Puffs)
good 4 u is a new and original song which doesn't plagiarize at all
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Also I clapped out loud with my real physical hands when I've Got The Power dropped on top of Tubthumping because that sort of moment is exactly what I like best about mashups.
We start with _The Power_, by Snap!, which is, coincidentally, in the mashup above, and is the version that made the most chart impact:
That was originally _The Power_, by Power Jam / Chill Rob G:
which was based on _Let The Words Flow_ by Chill Rob G:
Due to clearance issues, when they tried to release The Power in the US/UK, Turbo B re-wrote and re-recorded the lyrics and they released that version as Snap!.
And then we get to what I just heard, the version by "Power Band", who Discomagic seem to have formed to be a Snap! cover band, I guess? Because a lot of their songs are Snap! covers, except for this one which is the Chill Rob G version. It's pretty confusing. And to cap it off, this is some of the sloppiest rapping I have ever heard. I know not everyone is trying to be crisp and enunciate everything, but this guy feels like he only got paid to say 80% of the syllables and, dang it, that's all he's going to do. Also he doesn't even _know_ the lines, it's "my writing exciting never mundane", not "my writing exciting never won again" or whatever it is that he mushes out there. (and then they just, like, shove in the Kurtis Blow 'so damn tough' sample because sure, why not?)
Normally I have a fair bit of time for seemingly-unnecessary cover versions, but only when they're actually _trying_, sheesh.
Pianist SHOCKS Audience With Moonlight Sonata Dubstep Remix [6:15]
And the full version of the song:
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata Nightmare (Dubstep Remix) - Radio Edit [4:16]
Surprised I'd never heard this one before, it works SO WELL.
Every once in a while though, someone does a modern cover and it's amazing. Taking a 40 year old piece of music and polishing it til it shines.
Just realized this thread never got the rest of these, and the final one just went up a few weeks ago.
The above one? Amazing
Second one?
Amazing
Third one?
Amazing
Final one?
Tries to do too much and as such hits that level of mash-up that you need to listen to it a few times before it "clicks" but there's segments of that one which are also amazing (in all I'd say it's only pretty good).
Also watch 'em with closed captions on.
but what I was much more surprised to find out when I heard the original is that she's not singing "turn the beat around // love to feel the passion", she's singing "turn the beat around // love to hear percussion":
Yes, on guitar, that's B.B.King. And, yes, that was MC Skat Kat showing up.
and, just a moment, now it's Stevie Wonder? And Tone Loc? And Bugs Bunny? Ozzy Osborne? Natalie Cole? Pat Benatar? Queen Latifah? Kenny Loggins? _Bette Midler_? Barry White?
Plus it is incredibly 90s-looking, to add to the fun.
... I feel like we've talked about this before
He has original songs too but I've mostly been grooving to his covers. That guitar has such a great sound
Not just for the fact it's interesting and I have no idea how they worked out the origins of things, but the presentation is amazing, and I had no idea just how much was going on in some tracks. Skip to 4:10 in the hip-hop one, you'll know what it is when the second sample plays, but there's so many more in there.
Or 7:23 in the electronic music one -- I mean, obviously Praise You has the main samples, but realising just how many other things Norman Cook put in there. (or the reversed bit in Porcelain, or just when they're having fun with the presentation for the scratching on the final sample in New York State Of Mind, etc, etc)
Let's start... Dariacore.
Gotta have some vaporware, and not that kids stuff either; the real, crunchy, dirt
MF Doom Beats changed my life
Here's just some songs made up of other songs